Explore 312 historical events from 1790–1799.
Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel was an Austrian forester and inventor who designed one of the first working ship's propellers.
Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (died 1857)
The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the so…
Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing t
The Constitution of 1793, also known as the Constitution of the Year I or the Montagnard Constitution, was the second constitution ratified for use during the French Revolution und…
The first Republican constitution in France is adopted
Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie Rive…
Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental…
Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel was a Russian revolutionary and ideologue of the Decembrists.
Pavel Pestel, Russian officer (died 1826)
John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent ma…
John Clare, English poet and author (died 1864)
Almira Lincoln Phelps was an American scientist, educator, author, and editor. Her botany writings influenced more early American women to be botanists, including Eunice Newton Foo…
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (died 1884)
Martin Gerbert, was a German theologian, historian and writer on music, belonged to the noble family of Gerbert von Hornau, and was born at Horb am Neckar, Württemberg, on 12 Augus…
Martin Gerbert, German historian and theologian (born 1720)
Pietro Nardini was an Italian composer and violinist, a transitional musician who worked in both the Baroque and Classical era traditions.
Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1722)
Charles Bonnet was a Genevan naturalist and philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. He was among …
Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (born 1720)
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (born 1720)
Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux was a French Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the Governor of Isle de France from 1787 to …
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (born 1739)
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes…
Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, scientist and theorist (born 1743)
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, known as Charlotte Corday, was a reactionary figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Ma…
Charlotte Corday, French murderer (born 1768)
Roger Sherman was an early American politician, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Representing Connecticut, he was the only person to sign all four great state pa…
Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (born 1721)
Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie Rive…
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first…
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full inde…
Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered
Francis II and I was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hung…
France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars
A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers. This type of thief usually travelled and robbed by horse as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot; mounted hig…
Highwayman Nicolas J
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic …
"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The Austrian Netherlands were the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the acquisition by the Austrian Habsburg …
France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is…
The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement
Captain (Capt.) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in…
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain
John Thomas Romney Robinson, usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was an Irish astronomer. He was the director of the Armagh Observatory, one of the chief astronomical ob…
Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (died 1882)